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There are many different Chinese characters for all of the spellings. For the pronunciation of Jung's name (정), my web browser gives me 55 different characters. 청 has only 8, though. The Korean gov't's official romanization method puts Jung's name as 'Jeong', since the gov't uses 'Jung' for 중, as in the first character in China(中), plus 3 other characters, though the BKA would normally spell that one unambiguously as 'joong', as they do for the name of the BWF president and the former national team head coach.

The reason for the 'ch' is that, while his name is closest to the first syllable in the English word 'jungle', the initial consonant is actually only semi-voiced and is slightly aspirated, making it about halfway between the English 'ch' and 'j'. Indeed, older transliteration methods spelled Jung's name with the 'ch' and for the sound resembling the English 'ch', they used an apostrophe to signify the aspiration, as in the city name Ch'ŏngju, now spelled Cheongju.

As for the BWF change to 'Chung', it may be a temporary error, as when they suddenly switched Ratchanok Intanon's name around last spring, or when they started misspelling Shin Baek Cheol as Shin Baek 'Choel'. I didn't know 'Chung' was used at Beijing but it was at the Guangzhou Asian Games.

The BWF actually has a renegade ID for his alternate spelling. It was used last fall, temporarily denying Jung/Lee the top seed position in the first Korea GPG M&Q list.

Yong Dae isn't necessarily two words. It's two syllables which are represented by two Hangul symbols. If Yong Dae is one word, then Y. Makes as much sense as Y.D. Might need a korean specialist to look in to his name